Adjustable bottle-rest.



'No. 708,l73. Patented Sept.'2, i902.

n. SCHMIDT; ADJUSTABLE BOTTLE REST.

Application filed Mar. 20, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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RUDOLPH SCHMIDT, OF KANSASOITY, MISSOURI.

ADJUSTABLE BOTTLE-REST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 708,173, datedSeptember 2, 1902. Application filed March 20, 1902. Serial No. 99,154.(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUDOLPH SCHMIDT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri,have invented new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Bottle-Rests, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My-invention relates to an adjustable bottle-rest for bottlingapparatus; and the objects of my invention are to enable the bottles tobe filled more rapidly, to avoid breakage of bottles during the fillingoperation, and to provide means for adjusting bottles of all sizes tothe filling-tubes, so that the ends of the filling-tubes will be closeto the bottoms of the bottles, the advantages of which position are wellknown in the art. 7

In most bottling apparatus the bottles are supported by a neck-plate,having recesses into which the necks of the bottles are inserted. Theweight of the bottle is thus borne by its neck, which sometimes breaks,and the neck often has to be turned and adjusted in the neck-plate onaccount of the stopper-wires which are secured on the necks of manybottles. a loss of time, which my invention will obviate.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an end elevation ofmy invention attached to the legsof a filling-tank. 7 Fig.2 is a frontelevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a I top plan View of one of thebrackets detached.-

Fig. 4 is an enlarged horizontal section through one of the legs and aportion of the bracket. Fig. 5 is an enlarged view of one of the pawls,the bracket being broken away to expose the same.

1 designates a filling-tank supported by hind legs 2 and front legs 3.Secured by screws to the front of each leg 3 is a ratchet 4, having alongitudinal rib 4' thereon containing the ratchet-teeth. Said teeth maybe either cut or cast, as preferred.

Mounted on each ratchet 4 is a bracket 5, in the base of which is agroove which fits around the rib 4. The inner faces of said grooves aresmooth, so that the brackets 5 are slidable up and down along the ribs4. Each bracket is held against its ratchet 4 by a cap-screw 6, whichextends through a slot cut through the base of the bracket and com- Suchadjustment involves municating with said groove. The purpose of saidslot is to permit verticaladjustment of the bracket 5. In order topermit said ad justment, the cap-screws 6 are not turned up tightlyagainst the brackets 5.

In the upper inner corner of each bracket 5 is a transverse pin 7, onwhich is pivoted a depending pawl 8, having an outwardly-extending arm9, on which is a weight 10. The action of theweights 10 is to hold thepawls 8 against the toothed ribs 4', said pawls being in the upper endsof the aforesaid slots. Thus the weight of the brackets 5 is supportedby ribs 4 through pawls 8. The brackets 5 are connected by rods 11 and12. In the top of each'bracket 5 is a longitudinal slot 14. Mounted 'ontop of each bracket 5 is a hearing 13, having a studbolt 14, dependingthrough slot 14. On each bolt 14 is a wingnut 15 for clamping itsbearing 13 in any position along the slot 14'. Bearings 13 are connectedby a rod 16,'having threaded ends and a nut on each end thereof.Embracing rod 16 and touching the respective bearings 13 are twocastings 17, which support an angular bottle-rest 18 18. The angle atwhich the rest18 18 is inclined may be changed by rocking the rest uponthe rod 16. The nuts on the ends of said rod may be tightened to bindthe bearings 13 against the castings 17,

and thereby hold the rest 18 18 firmly in position.

19, 850., designate the siphons or fillingtubes, which depend throughslots in the tank 1.

The operation is as follows: The bottles to be filledare run upover thefilling-tubes 19 and dropped upon the rest 18 18. If the lower ends ofthe tubes 19 are not close enough to the bottoms of the bottles, thebrackets 5 are raised, (the pawls 8 slipping over the ratchetteeth.) Thebrackets 5 may be quickly lowered by raising the weights 10 andpermitting the brackets to descend by gravity. When the weights arereleased, the brackets will be supported in position. The rest 1818 maybe adjusted forward and backward by loosening the wing-nuts 15 andsliding the bearings 13 upon the brackets 5.

Having now fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of theUnited States, is

l. The combination with the front legs of a filling-tank, of a pair ofratchets secured to said legs respectively, a bracket mounted slidablyon each of said ratches, a pawl secured to each bracket in position toengage the adjacent ratch, means for holding the pawls yieldinglyagainst the ratches, a bearing mounted slidably on the top of eachbracket, a rod connecting said bearings, and an angular bottle-restsupported indirectly by said rod; substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the front legs of a filling-tank, of a pair ofratchets secured to said legs respectively, a bracket mounted slidablyon each of said ratches, the base of each bracket having a vertical slottherein,

RUDOLPH SCHMIDT.

Witnesses:

O. M. VAN DORSTON, K. M. IMBODEN.

